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Scott, Kieran – Religious Education, 2017
Educators throughout the ages have offered metaphors and analogies for teaching and teachers. Prominent among them are: gardener, midwife, facilitator, guide, sacrament. Each of these metaphors shed light, from a different angle, on the act of teaching. This article proposes the metaphor of tragedy as a way of shedding new light, from a totally…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Learning Processes
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Chapman, Hanah A.; Anderson, Adam K. – Psychological Bulletin, 2013
Much like unpalatable foods, filthy restrooms, and bloody wounds, moral transgressions are often described as "disgusting." This linguistic similarity suggests that there is a link between moral disgust and more rudimentary forms of disgust associated with toxicity and disease. Critics have argued, however, that such references are purely…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Failure, Language Usage, Relationship
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Brasel, S. Adam – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2010
Adding promotions to online services is increasingly commonplace, yet consumers may have difficulty determining whether service-embedded promotions are goal-relevant, due to the linear and transactional nature of online services. This contextual effect of goal-relevance ambiguity on promotions is explored across three studies. An exploratory study…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Context Effect, Figurative Language